Sunday, March 31, 2019

The End of an Era

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Today actually marks the end of an era. Beginning tomorrow 1st April 2019, Tictail, the platform where I sell my books, will shutting down...
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Thursday, March 28, 2019

What problem is Financial Independence supposed to solve ?

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I thought it might be a good time to summarise everything I know about The Problem that becoming financial independence is supposed to sol...
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Monday, March 25, 2019

The Model Thinker #11 : Entropy : Modelling Uncertainty

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Data falls into four categories. Data could be in equilibrium. A person's height is in equilibrium, as is the stock price for one co...
Saturday, March 23, 2019

BBFA The RPG - From Keyboard Warrior to Marriage Material !

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We all have to begin somewhere in life. I have spent a large part of my younger life as a BBFA so I know that BBFAs have a strong affini...
Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Gaming Analogy for the FIRE movement.

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There are many interesting parallels between the FIRE community and Board gamers. As it turns out Tabletop Gaming magazine talks about ...
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Monday, March 18, 2019

The Model Thinker #10 : Broadcast, Diffusion and Contagion.

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What does it mean when it was written in The Economist that a group of whiz kids hired by Barclays Bank modelled the cryptocurrency craze...
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Saturday, March 16, 2019

Pursuing FIRE while in a relationship.

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There is one question that I am not good at answering : How does one pursue FIRE while in a relationship with someone else? The first ...
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Thursday, March 14, 2019

Goodhart's Law and the folly of using Investment Benchmarks

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Charles Goodhart is an Economics Professor from the London School of Economics. He said that "Any observed statistical regularity wi...
Tuesday, March 12, 2019

The Model Thinker #9 : Network Models

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A fully blown discussion on Network Analysis goes beyond what is possible for a simple blog article. I'm only going to focus on...
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Sunday, March 10, 2019

Is Polytechnic Education the New Normal Stream ?

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First off, I am very pleasantly surprised at Ong Ye Kung's gesture to slay the sacred cow of streaming in Singapore. My kids are now s...
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Thursday, March 07, 2019

Personal Update

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I thought it would be a good time for a personal update since we're into our third month of 2019. a) Work falling into place At th...
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Tuesday, March 05, 2019

The Model Thinker #8 : Models of Value and Power

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Suppose we are trying to get a board of six directors to agree on something. In this case, the board is has six members. Faction A has thr...
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Sunday, March 03, 2019

Seedly Event 2019 - Talk Cock Sing Song Ba Long Long ?

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I was still recovering from yesterday's talk and the traction for this Seedly event has been amazing. At this point of time, blogger...
Tuesday, February 26, 2019

The Model Thinker #7 : Concavity and Convexity

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Convexity are functions with an increasing slope. Most of us are familiar with the eighth wonder of the world compound interest, without w...
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Sunday, February 24, 2019

Why i told my friend to get his son into JC instead of Poly.

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The story began months ago after my friend wrote to me privately with a query. His son managed to score 12 points for his O level exams and ...
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Friday, February 22, 2019

The Model Thinker #6 : Linear Regression

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To understand a linear model, such as y = mx + b, you need to know that the dependent variable like y varies linearly with an independen...
Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Curious case of leveraging Astrea IV bonds.

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Sometimes I make mistakes when I teach a class. Fortunately, the smart folks who attend the session call me out very quickly and I can adjus...
Sunday, February 17, 2019

Letter to Batch 3 of Early Retirement Masterclass Students

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<<  Sharing this to readers as it is also a personal update. First time running a course while on pain-killers.  ...
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